Rose Cut Tourmaline

£5.00

Tourmaline comes in a wide veriety of spectacular colours. Different types of tourmaline have specific names based on colour and location its found in. - Rubellite is the name given for various shades of red tourmaline. - Indicolite is the name given for various shades of blue tourmaline. - Paraíba is another name for different shades of blue tourmaline but this is more intense and found in the state of Paraíba, Brazil. - Chrome tourmaline is an intense shade of green tourmaline. - Bi-colour or Tri-colour tourmaline has two or three different colours in usually green and pink. - watermelon tourmaline has two colours but this usually has pink in the middle and a green ring around the outside.

Tourmaline's colour is the result different metals causing different colours to come through such as traces of iron and titanium generally causing a green or blue colour. Manganese would give reds, pinks and possibly yellows.